In Depth – Page 19
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Keep it simple, stupid
Nina Röhrbein speaks to Peter Hansson, CEO of Swedish pension fund, Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa, about how how he keeps it simple
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your credit strategy?
CWPS (Ireland), VER (Finland), Vopak (Netherlands)
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Keeping hold of deferred members
Pension funds need a robust strategy to keep track of deferred members and to communicate with them in the right way. Gail Moss reports
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Satellites in orbit
Christoph Ryter, CEO of the Swiss retail group Migros’ Pensionkasse, explains his fund’s diversification strategy to Nina Röhrbein
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Confusion reigns supreme
The Cypriot bailout may have only been a drop in the ocean compared with the Greek rescue package. But, as Jonathan Williams finds, lack of detail is a major headache for the local provident funds even three months later
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Fallout from Ruslan and Cyprisia
Iain Morse assesses the consequences of the Cyprus bailout for the banking and wider financial services industries
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The coup de grace
Roxane McMeeken met with John Kyriakopoulos, the man whose huge bet on Greek bonds paid off dramatically for the country’s largest pension institution
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Quest for the ‘golden’ discount rate
We cannot foresee the long-term future, however much we would like to think we can, argues Alf Gohdes
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A few words of advice…
As the International Accounting Standards Board and the International Financial Reporting Standards Interpretations Committee continue to deliberate the discount-rate objective in IAS 19, Stephen Bouvier invited Falco Valkenburg, one of Europe’s leading consultant actuaries to set out the challenges facing the standard setters
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Leave nothing to chance
The advent of auto-enrolment in the UK has heightened focus on the need for robust risk management systems for DC plans. Gail Moss looks at a range of approaches
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Taking risk budgeting a step further
An analytical framework at the fund selection stage can help spare DC fund participants the pitfalls of a more advanced approach to diversification, writes Thierry Roncalli
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FeaturesRussian pensions are booming
Reform of Russia’s supplementary pension system is having a strong and positive impact, while further regulatory changes are on the cards for 2013, writes Alexander Lorenz
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Playing it safe
Nina Röhrbein interviews Bernard Caroyez of the Belgian pension fund Pensio B
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Developments in Dutch pooling
Recent bilateral agreements and regulatory developments are making the Netherlands more attractive as a jurisdiction for asset pooling, according to Wilfried Mulder and Mischa Muntinga
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A tale of two jurisdictions
Expatriate pensions are still an offshore game, and Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are vying for supremacy, writes Gail Moss
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Swimming against the tide
While the entire European pension industry seems to be fretting about the implications of a Solvency II-style directive for pension funds, in the far northeastern corner of Europe, solvency takes on an entirely different meaning.
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Indexation ambition
Nina Röhrbein interviews Bernard Walschots, CIO of Rabobank’s Dutch pension fund





